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LRB9003923DPcwam02
1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1230
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1230 on page 1, in
3 lines 2 and 6, by replacing "changing Sections 10, 20, and
4 25", each time it appears, with "changing Section 10 and
5 adding Sections 30 and 35"; and
6 on page 1, immediately below line 9, by inserting the
7 following:
8 ""Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection
9 Agency."; and
10 on page 2, immediately below line 14, by inserting the
11 following:
12 "(415 ILCS 130/30 new)
13 Sec. 30. Legislative field hearings. Within 180 days of
14 the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, interested
15 members of the House Committee and Senate Committee shall
16 conduct 2 legislative field hearings in different geographic
17 areas of this State for the purpose of discussing the issue
18 of ozone nonattainment and measures for addressing the issue
19 both nationally and within Illinois. The purpose of the
20 hearings is also to solicit input on health, environmental,
21 and economic issues and impacts of the federal Clean Air Act
22 on Illinois. Agency staff shall participate in the hearings.
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1 (415 ILCS 130/35 new)
2 Sec. 35. Agency outreach meetings; joint report.
3 (a) Prior to submission of a regulatory proposal to the
4 Pollution Control Board in response to a United States
5 Environmental Protection Agency request pursuant to Section
6 110 of the federal Clean Air Act to address attainment with
7 respect to ozone transport, should such a proposal be
8 necessary, the Director shall hold 3 outreach meetings for
9 the purpose of educating potentially affected persons of the
10 Agency's attainment strategy. At the meetings, the Agency
11 shall describe its strategy for attaining the national ozone
12 standard in Illinois' nonattainment areas and for reducing
13 Illinois' significant contribution, if any exists, to the
14 inability of other states to attain or maintain the national
15 ozone standard. The Director shall include a description of
16 the level of emission reductions federally mandated to be
17 obtained by the State and the economic and technical
18 feasibility of the Agency's attainment strategy. One
19 outreach meeting shall be held in the Chicago area, one in
20 the Metro-East area, and one in the Carbondale area.
21 (b) To assist in the preparation of a State
22 Implementation Plan to address ozone nonattainment pursuant
23 to a request by the United States Environmental Protection
24 Agency under Section 110 of the federal Clean Air Act to
25 address attainment with respect to ozone transport, the
26 Agency and Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, in
27 consultation with the Department of Natural Resources, shall
28 prepare a joint report on the utility costs and the economic
29 and employment impacts of the Agency's ozone attainment
30 strategy. The report shall also contain findings and
31 recommendations concerning the relative net cost of the
32 strategy. The joint report shall be submitted simultaneously
33 to the Pollution Control Board, as part of the State's
34 process for adopting the State Implementation Plan, and to
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1 the General Assembly.
2 (c) The Director shall not submit to the United States
3 Environmental Protection Agency a State Implementation Plan
4 relating to ozone transport that would impose emission
5 controls in Illinois more stringent than necessary for
6 Illinois to demonstrate attainment with a national ambient
7 air quality standard for ozone, unless it can be shown (i)
8 that anthropogenic emissions from sources located within
9 Illinois contribute significantly to nonattainment or
10 inability to maintain an ozone standard in another
11 nonattaining state and (ii) that feasible emission reductions
12 in the other nonattaining state, absent the more stringent
13 emission controls in Illinois, would not permit that state to
14 demonstrate attainment and maintenance of the national
15 ambient air quality standard for ozone."; and
16 on page 2, by deleting lines 15 through 33; and
17 by deleting all of pages 3 through 5.